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<DIV>Dear Christophe,</DIV>
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<DIV>on April 24 2004 you asked for user examples. Here is something I
could contribute.</DIV>
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<DIV>To familiarize myself with the technique of finite element methods in
general and particularly the handling of the getDP and gmsh software I solved a
few problems of thermal transport for which (semi-) analytical or alternative
solutions are available as a test. The examples in the getDP Wiki and the getDP
archives were of great help, many thanks again to everybody. But reducing the
complexity of the models (now one-dimensional problems mainly) helped me
a lot in the beginning. I feel that other beginners like me might be happy
to find some simple examples with a bit of description of what is happening.
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<DIV>For clarity I use a separate set of .geo and .pro files for each case. The
alternative results are described in the pdf-documents. I also tried to comment
on some stumbling blocks I encountered.</DIV>
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<DIV>If this is what you had in mind, please feel free to use the files. I do
not want to impose any restrictions on the use or redistribution of these
files.</DIV>
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<DIV>And then: there are still open questions in my problems. So I want to
invite all users to advance this set of problems.</DIV>
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<DIV>Best regards</DIV>
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<DIV>Matthias</DIV>
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Hugo-Eckener-Str. 94<BR> fon: +49 6131 622 10
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